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Lot Essay
Loch Katrine, Perthshire, is surrounded by hills of considerable height, the most remarkable being the head of Ben A'an (1750 ft.) and the broken contour of Ben Venue (2393 ft.). The scenery was immortalised by Sir Walter Scott's poem Lady of the Lake. Since 1859, the loch has formed the chief source of water-supply for Glasgow.
Named after Sir Anthony van Dyck and John Singleton Copley, Copley Fielding was the most prolific and proficient of the Fielding brothers. He worked first with his father, travelling with him to Liverpool in 1807 and Wales in 1808, before studying under John Varley in 1810, and exhibiting at the Old Society of Painters in Watercolours (O.W.S) for the first time the same year. Throughout his life he continued to exhibit a large number of views from his many sketching tours at the O.W.S., and was elected president of the Society in 1831. He won a gold medal at the Paris Salon of 1824, despite being the only Fielding brother never to visit France. Ruskin wrote of Copley Fielding: 'with the irregular playfulness and traceless gradation of nature herself, his skies will remain as long as their colours stand, among the most simple, unadulterated and complete transcripts of a particular nature which art can point to' (Modern Painters, part II, section III, chapter IV).
Named after Sir Anthony van Dyck and John Singleton Copley, Copley Fielding was the most prolific and proficient of the Fielding brothers. He worked first with his father, travelling with him to Liverpool in 1807 and Wales in 1808, before studying under John Varley in 1810, and exhibiting at the Old Society of Painters in Watercolours (O.W.S) for the first time the same year. Throughout his life he continued to exhibit a large number of views from his many sketching tours at the O.W.S., and was elected president of the Society in 1831. He won a gold medal at the Paris Salon of 1824, despite being the only Fielding brother never to visit France. Ruskin wrote of Copley Fielding: 'with the irregular playfulness and traceless gradation of nature herself, his skies will remain as long as their colours stand, among the most simple, unadulterated and complete transcripts of a particular nature which art can point to' (Modern Painters, part II, section III, chapter IV).